Probably an indication that the driver could not allocate a contiguous block of memory big enough for the device. See the info in the kernel documentation. The recommendation is to use the BIGPHYSAREA patch. -Joe Marcel Birthelmer wrote: > > What exactly does that error mean? > note: I get the same error when I try to cat /dev/video0 > > [root@hellfirese video]# xawtv > This is xawtv-3.54, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.17) > can't open /dev/video0: No buffer space available > v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway > v4l2: open /dev/video0: No buffer space available > v4l: open /dev/video0: No buffer space available > no video grabber device available > > [root@hellfirese video]# lsmod > Module Size Used by > saa7110 2544 0 (unused) > zoran 25840 0 > videodev 4992 2 [zoran] > i2c-old 3808 2 [saa7110 zoran] > es1371 30992 2 (autoclean) > ac97_codec 9760 0 (autoclean) [es1371] > soundcore 3984 4 (autoclean) [es1371] > NVdriver 820896 14 (autoclean) > 8139too 13408 1 > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
